This is why I am angry at Obama

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ThomWV  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-11-09 04:54 PM
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This is why I am angry at Obama
 Edited on Sat Apr-11-09 04:56 PM by ThomWV
I applaud his efforts at restoring the economy. However I think in time it would have restored itself as all economies have over the centuries.

What angers me is his lack of attention to the lasting things - the Constitution and our adherence to the rule of law. These are the enduring things which make us the nation we are and unless they are protected we are no nation at all. While the economy should draw much of his attention, it can not be his undivided attention.

Two matters demand equal attention; warrantless wiretapping and the torture of prisoners held by our Government. In the case of the former the President angers me by his continued application of Bush era legal argument to defend the continued use of this seemingly illegally power the Presidency has granted itself. As for the latter as a matter of international law the President must act, but he has been mute. In either case the burden of action will fall most heavily on President Obama's Attorney General. Indeed all that is required of the President is an order to his Attorney General to proceed. This is not too much to ask of his time. He has not done it and that angers me.

Far to many people have said that his time in office has been too short to accomplish everything. That is true. But in a nation suffering from nearly a decade of lawlessness an immediate return to the rule of law, and a public showing of the same, has to be of the highest priority. And so I reject the time-in-office argument. 

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Poor little DUmmie.

[miskie]

I suspect soon DU will reject ThomWV as he rejects Obama's "time-in-office argument"...Unless his donations are good that is.

[Carl]

Dear Thom,


What you have to learn to accept is that despite their ineptness on foreign protocols and policies,their idiotic economic plans,they do know your dreams are not based on any semblance of reality or truth.

I laugh at the raging impotence you will die with.